TreeChopper : Fell Entire Trees With a Single Axe Swing
Chopping down a large oak by hand is one of the most tedious chores in Minecraft. You break the bottom log, then climb a floating pillar of wood, swatting block after block while leaves rain down around you. TreeChopper changes all of that. Break one log with an axe, and the whole connected tree comes down at once, leaves included. It is a small quality-of-life mod that saves enormous amounts of time, and once you try it, going back to vanilla felling feels almost painful.
What TreeChopper Does
The core idea is simple. When you break a log with an axe in your main hand, the mod detects the entire connected tree and removes it in one action. You do not need to aim at every block, and you do not need to build scaffolding just to reach the top of a jungle giant. The canopy disappears along with the trunk, so you are not left with floating leaves that slowly decay over the next few minutes.
Trees whose canopies touch are felled together. That means a dense forest cluster can come down from a single break, which is either a blessing or a surprise depending on where you are standing. If you want to avoid that, simply sneak while breaking a block. Sneaking suppresses the mod entirely, and the block breaks the vanilla way, one at a time.
Durability and Drops
Felling is not free. Your axe loses one durability point for every extra block removed beyond the one you broke yourself. If the axe breaks mid-fell, the process stops immediately. Drops are handled properly too: every block rolls its loot table with your tool taken into account, so Fortune and Silk Touch behave exactly as they should. The resulting items are merged into stacks and dropped at the block you originally broke, keeping your inventory tidy.
Supported Versions and Loaders
TreeChopper for Minecraft supports Minecraft 26.1, 26.1.1, 26.1.2, and 26.2. Builds are available for Forge 62.0.9 or later, NeoForge 26.1.2.97 or later, and Fabric Loader 0.19.3 or later. On Fabric you will also need Fabric API, and the mod targets Java 25. All six published builds share the same felling code, so behavior is identical no matter which loader you pick. Only the entry point differs.
If you would rather skip the manual file juggling, the foxygame.net launcher can install TreeChopper in a single click and keep it updated automatically whenever a new build appears. Its add-on catalog also filters entries by loader and game version, which takes the guesswork out of matching the right jar to your setup.
Block and Item Tag Support
The mod works with anything carrying the right tags. Logs must belong to #minecraft:logs, leaves to #minecraft:leaves, and your tool to #minecraft:axes. Because tags drive everything, modded trees and modded axes are covered automatically as long as their authors assigned those tags. Oak, spruce, birch, jungle, acacia, dark oak, mangrove, cherry, pale oak, and the nether stems are all included out of the box.
How to Install TreeChopper
Getting started takes only a few minutes. Follow these steps:
- Install the correct loader for your Minecraft version: Forge, NeoForge, or Fabric.
- Download TreeChopper and place the jar file into your mods folder.
- On Fabric, confirm Fabric API is present as well.
- Launch the game once so the config file generates.
- Adjust settings in
config/treechopper-common.tomlif needed.
On Forge and NeoForge, the config is also reachable from the config button on the mods screen, so you never have to open the file by hand. Fabric has no config screen, so values are edited directly in the TOML file. The two settings that matter are enabled, which toggles the whole mod, and maxBlocks, which caps how many blocks a single break may remove. The default cap is 512, and it accepts values from 1 to 8192.
Trigger Conditions
Felling only happens when every condition is met. The item in your main hand must be in the axe tag, the broken block must be in the logs tag, you must not be sneaking, and enabled must be true. If any one of these fails, breaking behaves exactly like vanilla Minecraft.
Things to Keep in Mind
Felling stops at the edge of loaded chunks, so a tree straddling that boundary comes down only in part. Reaching maxBlocks leaves the remainder of the tree standing, which is intended behavior rather than a bug. The felling logic runs on the server, so on a dedicated server the mod must be installed server-side; a client-only install does nothing there. NeoForge builds for the 26.1 line cover 26.1.2 only, and on Fabric a claim protection mod that registers its block break listener after TreeChopper may be bypassed, since Fabric events have no listener priorities. Forge and NeoForge are unaffected by that quirk.
Final Thoughts
TreeChopper is one of those mods that quietly removes a chore you never realized was draining your playtime. It respects vanilla mechanics through tags, handles durability and loot correctly, and gives you a sneak toggle for precise work. Whether you are clearing a forest for a build or just gathering logs for a project, download TreeChopper and let one swing do the work of fifty.